Dolby Digital Plus codec

[snowdogx1]

Hello. I need to be able to export MPEG4 clips from Adobe Premiere Pro CC with a Dolby Digital Plus codec. How can I go about that? Is it something I need to purchase a license for? 

Thanks.

[RjL190365 · Accepted solution]

Sorry, but Adobe no longer includes or sells a Dolby anything encoder at all. You will need to purchase a third-party licensed encoder plugin.

[snowdogx1]

Yes that’s what I suspected. For my current MPEG2 exports I use a plugin I purchased from Minnetonka Audio, but they don’t produce a similar codec for MPEG4. And I can’t find anyone who does, but I was hoping maybe you knew of a company that does. Do you have a preferred vendor for such things?

Thanks.

[Averdahl]

This may be what you are looking for: SurCode for Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Encoder for Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud

[snowdogx1]

Hi. Thanks. Yes that's the company I purchased the MPEG2 codec from. Unfortunately they don't produce a similar product for MPEG4 in Premiere. They have one in development but I'm needing it now. Thanks for your help. I'll keep looking but frankly I'm not finding anyone.

[Averdahl]

Have you tried TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in AVC for Premiere Pro?

I have it installed and can export Dolby Digital audio when i export to MPEG4. It will export up to 5.1 Surround directly via Premiere Pro and Media Encoder, but you may need more since you are referring to Dolby Digital Plus. 🙂

Cygnus X-1

[snowdogx1]

Thanks. No I haven't heard of that. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

[Richard M Knight]

Not sure if this is the same but I can produce an MP4 file with DD plus audio using the Surcode encoder.

[snowdogx1]

I'll have to look into that. When I try and export an MPEG4 I'm not given the option of using the Surcode encoder. Minnetonka themselves says it wasn't possible, but maybe I'm trying it wrong somehow. Thanks.

[Richard M Knight]

Are you selecting Mpeg4 or H264 as your video code. Only H264 has the Surcode option. 

[snowdogx1]

MPEG4. I wasn't aware you can export an MPEG4 using H264. I'll give that a try. Thanks.

[Dax_Coley]

With purchase of this encoder, will this allow for decode of audio file within PPro timeline of video using Dolby Digital Plus?

[RjL190365]

Not needed. Only needed if you are going to encode (export) with any form of Dolby Digital audio.

Besides, Dolby Digital and its variants are already natively supported for decodes (at OS level) in Windows 8.1 and later. The full $600 encoder/decoder package is required if you're still running Windows 7 (which you shouldn't be running at this point anyway since all support for that OS ended two years ago), or if you are using a version of Premiere Pro prior to version 12.0 that does not utilize Microsoft's native AC3 decoder. The mention of earlier versions of Windows is a moot point with regards to Premiere Pro as all currently available versions of Premiere Pro that can be legitimately downloaded via the Creative Cloud app require Windows 10 (Fall 2019 feature update) or newer in order to even install at all.